This paper offers a systematic exploration of reputation mechanism design in trading environments with opportunistic sellers, imperfect monitoring of a seller’s actions and two possible seller effort levels, one of which has no value to buyers. The objective of reputation mechanisms in such settings is to induce sellers to exert high effort as often as possible. I study the impact of various me...

It has recently been shown that in some DNA microarrays the time needed to reach thermal equilibrium may largely exceed the typical experimental time, which is about 15 h in standard protocols (Hooyberghs et al. Phys. Rev. E2010, 81, 012901). In this paper we discuss how this breakdown of thermodynamic equilibrium could be detected in microarray experiments without resorting to real time hybrid...

This study was conducted to investigate the safety and efficacy of 3 intraarticular injections of the low-molecular-weight fraction of 5% human serum albumin (LMWF-5A) administered every 2 weeks for knee pain as a result of osteoarthritis. This single-center, randomized, vehicle-controlled, double-blind, phase II study was designed to ensure the safety of multiple intra-articular injections of ...

Among a number of gamma-ray bursts whose host galaxies are known, GRB 971214 stands out for its high redshift (z>/=3) and the Lyalpha emission line having a P Cygni-type profile, which is interpreted to be a direct consequence of the expanding supershell. From a profile-fitting analysis, we estimate the expansion velocity of the supershell (vexp=1500 km s-1) and the neutral column density (NHi=...

In project scheduling, a set of precedence-constrained jobs has to be scheduled so as to minimize a given objective. In resource-constrained project scheduling, the jobs additionally compete for scarce resources. Due to its universality, the latter problem has a variety of applications in manufacturing, production planning, project management, and elsewhere. It is one of the most intractable pr...

We propose and analyze a generic mathematical model for dynamic, stochastic vehicle routing problems which we call the dynamic traveling repairman problem (DTRP). The model is motivated by applications in which the objective is minimizing the wait for service in a stochastic and dynamically changing environment. This is a departure from traditional vehicle routing problems which seek to minimiz...

1. Tan K. Prerna A, Leo YS. Surveillance of H1N1-related neurological complications. Lancet Neurol. 2010;9:142–3. h t tp : / /dx .do i .o rg /10 .1016 /S14744422(10)70015-6 2. Glaser CA, Winter K, DuBray K, Harriman K, Uyeki TM, Sejvar J, et al. A population-based study of neurologic manifestations of severe influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in California. Clin Infect Dis. 2012;55:514–20. http://dx.doi.or...

We derive dynamic optimal trading strategies that minimize the expected cost of trading blocks of securities over a xed time horizon. Given xed blocks si of shares of stock i to be traded within a nite number of periods T , i = 1; : : : ; n, and given price-impact functions that yield the execution price of an individual trade as a function of the shares of stock i traded and current market con...

This paper offers a systematic exploration of online feedback mechanism design issues in trading environments with opportunistic sellers, imperfect monitoring of a seller’s effort level, and two possible transaction outcomes (corresponding to “high” and “low” quality respectively), one of which has no value to buyers. The objective of feedback mechanisms in such settings is to induce sellers to...

You have accessJournal of UrologyUrodynamics/Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction/Female Pelvic Medicine: Male Incontinence: Therapy I (PD04)1 Sep 2021PD04-10 COMPARATIVE URODYNAMIC STUDY IN CADAVER OF URETHRAL PRESSURE PROFILOMETRY BETWEEN THE UROMEMS ARTIFICIAL URINARY SPHINCTER AND AMS800 TM Aurélien Beaugerie, Florence Poinard, Anne Denormandie, Juliette Cotte, Christine Reus, Emmanuel Chartier-...